Cell C 21 Mbps HSPA+ update

Hmmm, 6Gb BluRay Movie Download in 45 Minutes, now that's broadband
 
Mr.Jax said:
".....designed for latency of less than 80 ms."
Not good enough!

Should have been at least
".....designed for latency of less than 40 ms."
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agree, LTE / 802.16m (New Wimax standard) is under 10ms
 
Pricing is always an issue, lets see what it would cost to download 24 Hours continuously, and let's take afrihosts R19Per/Gb as a "fair" benchmark (used loosely)

So the Maximum Theoretical download is 226GB per Day costing R4300.00 Per Day, and R129 276 Per Month.
Alright That is just not right. I'd pay 4K for Uncapped, unshapped 21Mbps Link though

Lets Download Da net
 
Looks promising. I wonder what the pricing will be though. :sick:
 
Maybe this is one of the many reasons ICASA dropped the sprectrum licence bid...
 
phenom said:
agree, LTE / 802.16m (New Wimax standard) is under 10ms
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Uhm... I would be careful giving statements like that. What latency are we talking about? Latency of the packet to the tower, or latency to a server on Cell C's network or latency to any server on any major network in South Africa?

I can assure you the latency of person in Joburg, accessing a server in Joburg, while being routed only in Joburg would almost be an order of magnitude lower than sitting in Cape Town accessing the same server. When you get below 100ms you have to start thinking about number (and type) of routers, distance (because information travels at about half the speed of light down the fiber).

I am on ADSL in Cape Town and I can tell you there is not a lot of servers in South Africa that will consistently give me sub 40ms latency (with a ping).
 
Will this be good enough to play MMORPG games on? What about MO FPS games?
 
Wish that Neotel would throw in some extra Gigs on their capped products. :(
 
I call BS on this:

To date Cell C has rolled out over 1300 HSPA+ 900 transmitters with a fibre backbone and IP access secured.
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Is Lars telling us he's got 1300 towers on fibre?

A birdie told me they are closer to 300 HSPA+ towers and very few on fibre.

Seems, just like Lars slipped in an extra 'G' (when he insisted his network is 4G - it's not), he is now slipping in an extra 'K', upping the number of towers by a 1000. ;)
 
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